Oregon occupiers: Not quite time to go home yet
BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) – The leader of a group of armed men who took over a U.S. wildlife refuge in remote southeastern Oregon said on Wednesday they know they will have to go home, but they want results from their protest and feel it is not “quite time…
Ex-police chief of NY town sentenced in case that led to child porn sweep
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The former police chief of a New York town was sentenced to 1-1/2 years in prison on Wednesday for possessing child pornography in a case that helped crack an extensive child pornography operation in New York state.
Alabama chief justice orders halt to same-sex marriage licenses
(Reuters) – The chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court ordered the state’s probate judges on Wednesday not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court last year legalizing gay marriage.
Time Warner Cable says up to 320,000 customers’ data may have been stolen
(Reuters) – Time Warner Cable Inc said on Wednesday up to 320,000 customers may have had their email passwords stolen.
Ringleader of Saks ID theft scheme pleads guilty
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The ringleader of a scheme in which four former Saks Fifth Avenue employees used stolen customer data to buy $430,000 of luxury goods from the retailer’s flagship Manhattan store, with plans to resell them on the black market, has …
U.S. wildfires burned record area in 2015: Agriculture Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. wildfires burned a record 10.1 million acres (4.09 million hectares) in 2015 and the Forest Service spent 52 percent of its budget fighting fires, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.
No jail time for deputy in San Francisco hospital assault
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A San Francisco Sheriff’s deputy who was convicted of assaulting a disabled, homeless patient inside a hospital in 2014 avoided jail time when he was sentenced on Wednesday, officials said.
L.A. prosecutor declines to charge Cosby over allegations by 2 women
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Los Angeles County district attorney has declined to bring criminal charges against comedian Bill Cosby stemming from sexual assault allegations by two women over separate incidents, one dating back to 1965 and the other to …
Alabama chief justice orders halt to same-sex marriage licenses
(Reuters) – The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court ordered the state’s probate judges on Wednesday not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court last year legalizing gay marriage.
Florida woman died after hospital thought she was faking: lawyers
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida woman who collapsed and later died after being arrested for refusing to leave a rural hospital emergency room may have lived if medical staff and police had not assumed she was faking illness, her lawyers said on…
